Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Yesterday's Enterprise
By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.25.2001
In the launch bay, Mayweather quizzes Trip and Quantum on Suliban pod operation. Trip's not getting a lot right, and it's making me nervous since he's going to be the one flying it. How does Mayweather know all this anyway -- because he's a "boomer"? Does that automatically mean that you know all alien ships, or do they just all conform to one mode of operation? Really, I want to know. Trip takes his time finding the auxiliary throttle, and Mayweather turns to Cpt. Quantum impatiently. "With all due respect to Commander Tucker, I'm pretty sure I can fly this thing, Sir." Cpt. Quantum tells him he's sure he can, but he needs Mayweather aboard the Enterprise. Is he the only one who knows how to fly that as well? More hits, shakes, and rumbling on the ship. T'Pol walks in and reports that the pods are coming nearer to the ship with their sensor charges. "If we stay here much longer, they are going to locate us," she tells them. Cpt. Quantum tells Mayweather to speed up his tutorial. Trip says he's got it: "How complicated can it be? Up, down, forward, reverse -- I can figure it out." Yeah, it's just like dusting crops back home on Tatooine, right, Luke? Amid more sensor-charge fire, Cpt. Quantum gives some final orders to T'Pol, including having Mayweather plot a course to Kronos. T'Pol informs him, "There's a Vulcan ship less than two days away, it would be illogical to attempt this alone." Cpt. Quantum whines that he thought she understood why they had to do this alone. "You'll have other opportunities to demonstrate your independence," T'Pol tells him. "Never put off today --" Cpt. Quantum starts to say, when T'Pol interrupts, telling him they could both get killed. "Am I sensing concern? Last time I checked that was considered an emotion," Cpt. Quantum says.
Could they stop with that now? Please? They've used that line, like, eight times in just this one episode, which means they cannot use it again for the next seven years. And I'm sorry, but if I haven't already made my opinion completely clear, I think Blalock sucks as a Vulcan. She shouldn't be allowing any trace of emotion to seep through at all -- otherwise she will completely undermine any future impact when she drops her Vulcan reserve in later episodes. She needs to study up on her Data, Spock, and Seven of Nine (Yes, I did say Seven of Nine. Dinners aside, I thought she was an excellent actress), all of whom kept their "humanness" or emotions in check so well that their fans swooned in later episodes when they actually cracked a bit. If she gives in, even a little bit, right at the start, no one's going to be interested later on. Okay, rant over. For now.
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